They Dropped Like Flakes, di Emily Dickinson

They Dropped Like Flakes

They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,

Like petals from a rose,

When suddenly across the lune

A wind with fingers goes.

They perished in the seamless grass,—

No eye could find the place;

But God on his repealless list

Can summon every face

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639 My Portion is Defeat—today— A paler luck than Victory— Less Paeans—fewer Bells— The Drums don’t follow Me—with tu…

532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—

464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—

Part One: Life LIV EXPERIMENT to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel?

309 For largest Woman’s Hearth I kne… ’Tis little I can do— And yet the largest Woman’s Heart Could hold an Arrow—too—

878 The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier— If eager for the Dead

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take

310 Give little Anguish— Lives will fret— Give Avalanches— And they’ll slant—

771 None can experience sting Who Bounty—have not known— The fact of Famine—could not be Except for Fact of Corn—

122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—

Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

652 A Prison gets to be a friend— Between its Ponderous face And Ours—a Kinsmanship express— And in its narrow Eyes—

928 The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty—unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony

841 A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature’s Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale.

No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,